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the cere-skin; wings and tail long, the tail slightly rounded; tarsus short, reti- 
culate, the upper half feathered in front; toes rather long. Feeds chiefly on 
the larvae of Hymenoptera. 3 or 4 species, migratory and stationary, found in 
Europe, Africa and Asia as far as Celebes. Eggs 1 — 2. 
-f * 22. PERNIS OELEBENSIS (Wall.). 
Celebesian Honey-buzzard. 
Plates II and III. 
a. Pernis cristatus part. (I) Sclil. , Yalkv. Ned. Ind. 1866, 39, 73, pi. 26, f. 4; Grray, HL. 
1869, I, 26; (2) Sclil., Rev. Acc. 1873, 132, Nr. 16 only. 
h. Pernis cristatus var. celebensis (1) Wall., Ibis 1868, 17. 
c. Pernis ptilorhyncha (1) Wald, (nec Temm.), Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 36. 
Pernis celebensis (1) Wald., t. c. p. Ill; (2) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1874, I, 349; (3) Tweedd., 
Ibis 1877, 287; Meyer, Ibis 1879, 56; Gurney, Ibis 1880, 216; (^^jHume, 
Str. E. IX, 1880, 448; (7) Gurney, t. c. 1881, 448; (8) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 
114, 126, 135; (9) Gurney, Diurn. B. of Prey 1884, 87; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 
1885, 545; (11) Newton, Diet. B. 1893, 427; (12) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 
1895, Nr. 8, p. 4; (13) bd., ib. 1896 Nr. 2, p. 7. 
d. Baza celebensis Rosenb. (nec Schl.), Malay. Archip. 1878, 271. 
“Goheba” v. Sebierbrand in Mus. Dresd. 
“Koheba”, Manado, Guillem. 10. 
Figures and descriptions. Schlegel a I, a 2\ Walden 7, 5; Sharpe 2\ Gurney 5, 7, 10. 
Adult. Above Prout’s brown with a purplish gloss; bead above black; feathers of the 
neck broadly margined with rufous; tail wluty brown crossed with about five bands 
of black and mottled in the interspaces with wavy lines of brown, a space of about 
57 mm separating the terminal and subterminal bands; extreme end of tail whitish; 
lores and region around the eye smoke-brown; chin and throat white, marked 
with black streaks gathered into black stripes down the middle and at the sides of 
the throat; breast light russet striped with black; remaining under parts, in- 
cluding under wing-coverts and thighs, white closely barred with sepia- brown; under 
side of quills whitish with about seven bars of sepia-brown, broken up at the base. 
“Ii’is light yellowish brown (“dark brown” — • M.) ; length in the flesh 620 mm” (Ribbe 
and Kiihn, Maros, S. Celebes, Nr. 3920). Another specimen (Nr. 5756 Manado) 
closely resembles that described. 
Young (first plumage). Back, wings and upper tail-coverts sepia, varied with drab-brown 
and white on the greater wing-coverts and scapulars; some feathers of dark Prout’s 
brown present in the interscapulary region; tail much as in the adult; head and 
neck white, the latter streaked with Prout’s brown, many feathers of the same colour 
sprouting on the occiput; in front of eyes smoky grey; under parts white, uni- 
form on chin, throat, abdomen and under tail -coverts, narrowly streaked with dark 
brown on the breast, barred with paler brown on the thighs, barred with rufous on 
the axillaries, and very faintly with pale rufous on the anal region and under tail- 
coverts. At the flanks the specimen has obtained some of the feathers of maturity 
barred with dark brown and white. (N. Celebes Nr. 14011). 
Two other young specimens in the Leyden Museum, apparently rather older 
than that described above, have the head clothed with feathers with white bases, and 
Meyer & Wigl eswo rth, Birds of Celebes (Oct. lOtli, 1897). y 
